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(CNN)Actress Ashley Judd is grateful to the Congolese people who helped her in her time of need. Judd on Tuesday shared intimate photos and details from the horrific 55-hour ordeal during which she struggled to find treatment for a leg injury while on a research trip.

Ashley Judd is feeling thankful after shattering her leg in the African jungle.

NEW YORK -- Ashley Judd has recounted a painful ordeal she believes almost cost her leg after tripping in a Congolese rainforest and having to be evacuated by motorbike.In one of two Instagram Live videos hosted Friday by New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof, the actor said she was stuck on the ground for five hours with a “badly misshapen leg,” biting a stick because of pain, and “howling like a wild animal.”Judd was injured when she and researchers were up early in a rainforest looking

breaking her leg in the African rainforest. The star of films including Heat and Olympus Has Fallen said she was left in "primal pain" after fracturing her leg in four places and sustaining nerve damage in a fall in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Ashley Judd is recovering after suffering an accident in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. On Tuesday, the 52-year-old actress shared photos of the grueling, 55-hour rescue mission that saved her life, after she shattered her leg during an excursion she took while researching the Bonobos, a unique species of ape, which is indigenous to the area.«Friends. Without my Congolese brothers and sisters, my internal bleeding would have likely killed me, and I would have lost my leg.

On Tuesday, Ashley Judd shared much more detail — along with a gallery of photos — from her harrowing experience after suffering a shattered leg in the Congolese jungle last week. Specifically, she spoke of the locals who helped her through the ordeal. Without them she wrote, “My internal bleeding would have likely killed me.”

The New York Times‘ Nicholas Kristof in which she spoke from a South African hospital’s trauma unit.Judd, who was in the Congo to track the endangered Bonobos, explained that she sustained “massive catastrophic injuries” after tripping over a fallen tree. “What was next was an incredibly harrowing 55 hours,” she said.Recalling her evacuation from the rainforest, Judd said she spent five hours lying on the ground with her “badly misshapen leg”.

Ashley Judd revealed on social media Friday that she was involved in a "catastrophic accident" in the Congo rainforest where she nearly lost her leg. Speaking from an ICU bed, the actress and humanitarian said in an Instagram Live video with New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof that she shattered her leg in four places and has nerve damage.

Haley Bosselman editorAfter nearly losing her leg in a “catastrophic” accident while at a research camp in a Congo rainforest, Ashley Judd is recovering at a hospital in South Africa.Judd opened up about the accident and her work in the Democratic Republic of Congo during an Instagram Live with New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof. Walking with a “powerful stride” early in the morning before sunrise, Judd did not see a fallen tree and tripped, shattering her leg.

Ashley Judd is recovering after a “catastrophic” leg accident in a Congo rainforest.

Singer, actress and animal rights advocate Ashley Judd is recuperating at a South African trauma unit after almost losing a leg in a “catastrophic” fall in a Congo rainforest.

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